What is most concerning about Watson is his complete naivety about the potential dangers of interjecting new genetic sequences into living beings. This is probably one of the biggest ethical issues ever faced in science, and Watson can’t be bothered with that. He sees no downsides on making people better looking, and smarter. He balks at people who are reserved about taking evolution into our own hands and says, “Hey, what’s the big deal?” It sounds pretty good at first, until you realize taking our evolution into our own hands, imperfect, human hands, may not be the dream come true Watson is selling it to be. What exactly are we dealing with as we broach this new world of genetic engineering?
At first, propaganda was used to alienate the Jews, before they were herded into ghettos or forced to work at concentration camps. Afterward, the Einsatzgruppen, special murder squads containing people from the German middle class, were sent in to kill Jews as the German war machine advanced through Europe. Out of these four actions, only the latter involved pure murderous intent, but once the killing took its toll on the men, another plan had to be implemented. This was what eventually led to the gassing of the Jews, rather than a premeditated intention to murder the Jews. Although some say that
Eugenicist , the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits. (dictionary.com) The Eugenics Laws also known as the Sterilization program, effecting thousands of lives across the country, was practiced by surgeons who used the eugenic philosophy .In 1907 Indiana became the first state to enforce a sterilization law. Thirty states passed sterilization laws, including North Carolina, which passed the N.C. Sterilization Act in 1929. In 1933 as a result of a lawsuit filed by Mary Brewer, the N.C. Supreme Court ruled that the Sterilization program was unconstitutional, because of the lack of public hearings or a notification
This paved way for the Nazi government in 1938 to rewrite the law and confiscate all weapons from those who they viewed opposed to their way of things, especially the Jews. Hitler was able to disarm a nation because he assumed that power that was granted to him by degrees from the previous administrations before him (Simkin,, Zelman, & Rice,
The Germans, immediately after sinking the ship, accused Britain of the Lusitania carrying munitions, not just passengers. The government tried to justify the sinking of the Lusitania by saying that the Lusitania contained weapons (“Sinking of RMS Lusitania” para. 2). The Germans must have known that the Lusitania held weapons, years before future historians and scientists would prove their existence true. If not, Germany would have looked at all the positives and negatives of sinking the Lusitania, and would have realized the cons outweighed the pros in this situation.
Hitler aimed gradually to purify the German race, and this would be achieved by eliminating racial mixing, to create in von Shirach’s words “the perfect and complete human animal- the superman” the main obstacle to this as Hitler thought was the “eternal enemy”, the Jews. There is no historical topic that is protected to controversy, even the holocaust. There are three debates concerning this event. The first is whether it happened or not, the huge majority of historians accept that the evidence for holocaust is overwhelming. A small minority consider that the gas chambers were the creations of the Allied propaganda.
The Holocaust “By warding off the Jews, I am fighting for the Lords work” (Harran 50). This quote is the exact words of the worlds most accomplished mass murderer in history, Adolf Hitler. His goal was to exterminate the complete Jewish race, to make room for the “Aryan” race. “Jews have been discriminated against, hated, and killed because prejudiced non-Jews believed they belonged to the wrong religion, lacked citizenship qualifications, practiced business improperly, behaved inappropriately, or possessed inferior racial characteristics” (Harran 41). Due to the hatred that was formed against the Jewish people, over the years of 1933 to 1945, about six million innocent people lost their lives.
Pro-choice activists lead the charge in advocating comprehensive sex education, increased access to birth control, condom use, and emergency contraception, all of which reduce the incidence of abortion. Strangely, anti-abortion activists work equally hard to make these options more difficult to access--creating the impression that the anti-abortion movement is more concerned with sexual purity than
Perfection appears to be only in the eye of the beholder. Hitler's idea of perfection was to sterilize and euthanize in order to have a selectively perfect gene pool. Many others would not have the same idea of perfection. He was trying to create the perfect human race. Little did he know that he was set up for failure from the beginning.
German Jews were popular targets of blame because they stood out from the population at large. Hitler accused these Jews repeatedly of damaging the war effort and being employed in safe jobs far away from the front lines. A historical investigation will be conducted regarding a thorough analysis of what the holocaust was and what reasons paved the way for the holocaust to occur. Basically stated, Adolf Hitler was the leader of Germany for the duration of approximately twelve years spanning from 1933-1945. Hitler possessed a vision of creating what he thought could possibly be a “perfect race” (Aryan race).